Search and visualization of gene-drug-disease interactions for pharmacogenomics and precision medicine research using GeneDive.

Background: Understanding the relationships between genes, drugs, and disease states is at the core of pharmacogenomics. Two leading approaches for identifying these relationships in medical literature are: human expert led manual curation efforts, and modern data mining based automated approaches. The former generates small amounts of high-quality data, and the latter offers large volumes of mixed quality data.

GeneDive: A gene interaction search and visualization tool to facilitate precision medicine.

Obtaining relevant information about gene interactions is critical for understanding disease processes and treatment. With the rise in text mining approaches, the volume of such biomedical data is rapidly increasing, thereby creating a new problem for the users of this data: information overload. A tool for efficient querying and visualization of biomedical data that helps researchers understand the underlying biological mechanisms for diseases and drug responses, and ultimately helps patients, is sorely needed.

Closure of the cystic duct by ultrasonic energy: an electron-microscopic and biomechanical study in man.

Background: Ultrasonic activated devices are currently used both for sealing of blood vessels and dissection of parenchymal organs. Recently, ultrasonic energy has been used to seal the cystic duct during successful clip-less cholecystectomy, but no study examined the mechanisms of tissue welding by ultrasonic energy or the biomechanical properties of the seal. This was the aim of our investigations.

Incarcerated massive incisional hernia: extensive necrosis of the colon in a very obese patient. Surgical treatment and vacuum-assisted closure therapy: a case report.

We discuss a diabetic obese patient with an extensive necrosis of the ascending and transverse colon plus segmental necrosis of the small bowel incarcerated in a massive median incisional hernia below the umbilicus. After a blood test and an abdominal CT scan (without contrast dial), the patient underwent an urgent operation. We performed an extended right hemicolectomy, multiple segmental small bowel resections and a terminal ileostomy.